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Recognition and setting up learning initiatives

Summary:

In response to a question on how Gita Balakrishnan engaged online, she shares her thoughts about the people and methodologies that were involved in working towards learning initiatives, especially on connecting with women who had taken a break from their practice. She talks about the challenges she faced in the process of multi-tasking various roles while working mostly remotely. 

Moving on, she talks about the recognition she received in the education field and the state of workplace support available to working mothers as she has witnessed. She describes in detail the problems that can be caused by not providing an equitable platform to young male or female graduates, and the gap it creates in the many sections of the field at large. She talks about the extensive amount of human resources intensive work that she engages in while connecting college graduates and firms and recalls many cases that stood out to her through competitions that were held. Lastly, she comments on the changes she has seen in the field from the faculty development programmes, initiatives towards the development of technology and specialty skills, and case study approach.

Practitioner:

Gita Balakrishnan

Interviewee:

Gita Balakrishnan

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.21.41

Mode:

Online

Date:

11/03/2021

Language:
English

Highlights:
(00:00:20:27) Working online, (00:10:30:45) Insights on architecture education and quality of university curriculums